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Thanks for that. Quite informative. I saw a video similar to this a few years ago which included a segment showing a field replacement using a heavy wrecker. My concern about using these types of modules has always been as follows: 1) practically speaking there is little usefulness in...

Okay, I'll bite. Do those ratios depend on crew numbers or actual boat numbers? In other words do we need a real 3:1 boat ratio because the boats need to spend 2/3rds of their lives in maintenance, refit etc, or does the ratio come from the fact that we can't expect any given crew spend 12...

Missile is technically a term for anything that is propelled through the air to a target. The whole "attack drone" field could really do with some terminology standardization across its different variants. 🍻

There should have been someone from DLR and PWGSC there with a contract and a checkbook. 🍻

He actually is an accessory. Accessory laws in general include aiding and abetting a crime. Providing a child with mental health issues with an assault rifle can constitute "aiding." Intent will be an issue. The question is whether an intent to acquire and provide the weapon is enough or whether...

"Trump will end." :ROFLMAO: That's aggressively optimistic. I'm sure a Trumpian victory will be declared but this is an ideological war and ideologies are difficult to kill. The war won't end - it will just change character. We have our own problems. 😠

Ran across this quite interesting deep dive into a comparison of the older Marder A3 compared to a CV9040 as deployed in Ukraine. Yes, its about IFVs, but the vehicles - especially the CV 90 have potential roles not only as cavalry but of course as part of a combined arms team. I think that...

That's a much stronger percentage then homeopathic medicines. :giggle:

I wouldn't put money on that. The current clown show won't last forever and my guess is that the next administration will see the value of better and continued relationships with Europe and will, at least, try harder. OTOH, the influence that the US had through hard power deployed in defence of...

That worries me a lot less than his views on women and abortion and several other things. But look at the pool of candidates Trump selects from. It's heavily skewed in favour of the "deplorables." Of course it does. It deserves a better president, a better cabinet, a better legislature a better...

Well, he is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation so he probably has a bit of a different view about "illegal immigration" than the average guy. He's a Republican so you automatically get all the garbage associated with modern-day Republicans but we all knew that Trump wouldn't appoint Bernie...

You and I were in at the same time. We all knew that the air sentries were really of little use but to throw up a flimsy wall of lead to make the odd commie pilot flying nape of the earth a bit nervous and to give warning of approaching aircraft so that we could scurry under cover. Once we...

The artillery has faced this issue several times. Both the air defence specialty and the surveillance and target acquisition specialty had been "depopulated" several times over the last 70 years where literally only one or two instructors in gunnery or the assistant instructors in gunnery at the...

:ROFLMAO: Brilliant. 🍻

The UK does. They do okay. They have some 38,000 army cadets, 13,000 sea cadets and 34,000 air cadets. The US runs the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program in high schools with over 3,200 JROTC units of which over 30% join the military. The estimate is that there are more...

Well, if the lessons from Ukraine about masses of cheap UAVs replacing attack air and aviation and being the primary threat air defence needs to be catering to, then Iran should be. The exchange of $1 - 4 million dollar missiles for a $5,000 drone is just silly. Firstly its crappy economics and...

It is very clear that tracked vehicles, especially SPs, have an advantage in the form of tactical mobility. Wheeled are perceived as having an advantage for strategic and operational mobility. I personally consider the latter a false perception and, IMHO, one needs tactical mobility every day in...

There's a lot of truth in that but I say squeeze them for everything they're worth. We need more capacity and competition here. 🍻

:ROFLMAO: They were "light" because originally they came in under 20 tons, were armoured, and were a vehicle, so LAV was apt. They were part of a "medium" force because they were formed into a structure that came between "light" forces who had no vehicles at all and moved around on foot and...